Today's fact
The reason why tattoos do not vanish even though we shed our skin is because the dye is injected deeper into the dermis part of the skin. It is only the epidermis that we shed.



On this day in history ...
1587 - Mary - Queen of Scots beheaded
1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1693 - Charter granted for College of William & Mary - 2nd college in US
1861 - Confederate States of America organized in Montgomery - Ala
1883 - Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen
1910 - Boy Scouts of America founded
1911 - US helps to overthrow Miguel D vila - president of Honduras
1922 - Radio arrives in the White House
1926 - Walt Disney Studios formed
1957 - SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
1969 - Meteorite weighing over one ton is recovered in Chihuahua - Mexico
1974 - Skylab 4's astronauts land
1975 - Caps only got one shot in a period against the Islanders
1977 - Earthquake in SF - at 5.0 - strongest since 1966
1984 - Soyuz T-10 is launched